Folksongs of Britain and Ireland : a guidebook to the living tradition of folksinging in the British Isles and Ireland, containing 360 folksongs from field recordings sung in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Channel Islands French, Romany, and tinker's cants, etc.
Folksongs of Britain and Ireland : a guidebook to the living tradition of folksinging in the British Isles and Ireland, containing 360 folksongs from field recordings sung in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Channel Islands French, Romany, and tinker's cants, etc.
Each section contains introd., guide to pronunciation, notes on the song texts and variants, and bibliography; songs not in English with English translations
Songs in Scottish Gaelic -- Songs in Irish Gaelic -- Songs in Welsh -- Songs in Manx Gaelic -- Songs in Cornish -- Songs of the Channel Islands -- Songs of courtship -- Songs of false love and true -- Songs of seduction -- Songs of uneasy wedlock -- Songs of occupations -- Songs of country life -- Songs of good company -- Songs of diversion -- Songs of newsworthy sensation -- Songs of the travelling people
Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 15-16), and indexes (index of song titles, translations, and variant song titles; index of first lines; index of folksingers)